1. Advance Contract Award Notice (ACAN)
An ACAN is a public notice indicating to the supplier community that a
department or agency intends to award a contract for goods, services or
construction to a pre-identified supplier, thereby allowing other suppliers to signal
their interest in bidding, by submitting a statement of capabilities. If no supplier
submits a statement of capabilities that meets the requirements set out in the
ACAN, on or before the closing date stated in the ACAN, the contracting officer
may then proceed with the award to the pre-identified supplier.
2. Definition of Requirements
The department of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has a requirement to
renew support and maintenance fees for its Genesis-Kinex-Trinity 3D software
licenses.
Key requirements of this support and maintenance packages are listed below:
- Comprehensive dedicated online tutorials that allow the novice user to
rapidly acquire proficiency in the use of all software components and apply
the technology to relevant geological and geochemical problems to
produce rapid and meaningful results.
- The online help should include downloadable example files as well as
peripheral tools and datasets in T3 format to aid in the constraint of model
boundary conditions e.g. global heat flow, global source rock distributions,
Global CRUST 1.0 grids.
- Personal 1on1 support given directly by the software developer, via
telephone or by online web-collaborative tools such as GoToMeeting. The
supporting software engineer will have a thorough and demonstrable
understanding of the geological issues that can be addressed using the
modeling software applications and comprehensive knowledge of proxy
scenarios worldwide, with evidence of this through via international
recognition of his or her expertise in this field of geotechnology.
- Response time usually of <24hours from the logging of a non-superfluous
issue with follow up support given as appropriate.
- Rapid release of new functionality and debugging of reported issues with
several new versions of each application (Genesis, Kinex, Trinity T3) per
year to reflect the dynamic evolution of the user-requirements
3. Criteria for Assessment of the Statement of Capabilities
Any interested supplier must demonstrate by way of a statement of capabilities
that its support system meets the following requirements in order to provide
support for the Zetware Trinity T3 software suite including Genesis 1D burial
history modeling and Kinex kerogen kinetic analysis applications:
The supplier must release new versions more than once per year of all basin modeling application components available to all users for download at the users’ convenience online via a secure, password-protected website
The new versions of the software must seamlessly accept (via drag and drop) and generate file formats compatible with other geological (GeoScout, AccuMap), geophysical (Geoframe, Kingdom Suite), and GIS (ArcGIS) applications currently used at NRCan.
Troubleshooting for software technical requirements and its geologicalapplicability must be available by direct telephone with a response time to resolve most issues of <48hours.
User issues must be addressed by the software developer and expert petroleum systems analyst (not separately) via either telephone or email.
For issues requiring real time support, this must be available by direct intervention to the users workstation using web-conferencing tools such as
GoToMeeting such that the issue can be clearly communicated directly to the software developer.
4. Trade Agreements
This procurement is subject to the following trade agreement(s):
North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA);
Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA);
5. Justification for the Pre-Identified Supplier
We intend to deal directly with the supplier mentioned in section 11 below as, it is
the only known supplier that meets the mandatory criteria set out in section 3
above.
Should Canada receive a statement of capabilities from a supplier that contains
sufficient information to indicate that it meets the requirements set forth in this
ACAN, a competitive process will be triggered with a technical and financial
evaluation methodology of the bids proposed by the potential bidders
6. Exception to the Government Contracts Regulations
The following exception(s) to the Government Contracts Regulations is (are)
invoked for this procurement under subsection :
6(d) – only one person is capable of performing the work
The identified provider, ZetaWare, is the only one able to meet all of the criteria
identified in paragraph 3 above.
7. Exclusions and/or Limited Tendering Reasons
The following exclusion(s) and/or limited tendering reasons are invoked under
the:
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): Article 1016, 2, b
Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA): Article 513 b
8. Ownership of Intellectual Property
Ownership of any Foreground Intellectual Property arising out of the proposed
contract will vest in the Contractor.
9. Contract Period
The contract period will be from March 1st, 2018 to February 28, 2019.
Option for 3 years:
1. from March 1st, 2019 to February 28, 2020
2. from March 1st, 2020 to February 28, 2021
3. from March 1st, 2021 to February 28, 2022
10. Estimated Cost
The estimated value of the firm price is $ 50,000.00 CAD taxes included.
The estimated value of the optional years price is $150,000.00 CAD taxes
included.
For a total estimated value of $ 200,000.00 CAD taxes included.
11. Name and Address of the Proposed Contractor
ZetaWare, Inc.
2299 Lone Star Drive, unit 403,
Sugar Land, Texas
USA
77479
12. Suppliers’ right to submit a statement of capabilities
Suppliers who consider themselves fully qualified and available to provide the
services/goods described herein, may submit a Statement of Capabilities in
writing, preferably by e-mail, to the contact person identified in this Notice on or
before the closing date and time of this Notice. The Statement of Capabilities
must clearly demonstrate how the supplier meets the advertised requirements.
13. Closing Date
The closing date for a submission of a Statement of Capabilities is February 21,
2018 at 14:00 Eastern Standard Time.
14. Contract Authority
Catherine Boilard
1055, rue du PEPS
Quebec QC G1V 4C7
Canada
1-418-648-5654
c••••••••@••••••.ca
